Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board

Quote:

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

Quote:

Originally Posted by whaase

Just remember, you are getting 10x the operating system! :) I'd never waist 600 megs on Windows :) Harddrives are cheap. I have a FULL install of Gentoo, that has several gui's (KDE, Gnome, XFCE4, and a few smaller ones), full e-mail server, file server, web server, and it only takes 2 gig. And the last time I rebooted that machine was 11 months ago... :lol: I'm not anti Windows, I just think there is much better out there for free!

Walter

no your not, I do have linux and unix experiance from the servers we used to run on a local BBS. had 56 phone lines running through galacitica boxes and 5 servers. it was a total pain in the A$$.

I did get all 3 flavors of linux running good enuf to evaluate it, hence the reason I am running XP now. I decided linux is for tinkerers and kiddy hackers. I went two years on my install of XP untill a hard drive crash and ram burnout (colatterial dammage from a power supply failure :rolleyes: ) forced me to reload a new drive. my server has been running win 2000 server for over a year with the only reboot when I moved and 2 power outages..

Linux was popular with the bill haters and the people who were against paying for software back in the day. Now you have to pay for flavors of it, but you get the source code so you can modify it. if windows gave the source code out and only charged 1/2 the amount it would be pretty close to the same idea.

BeOS was going to be the OS to rule them all but bad markiting caused it failure to catch on in the same fasion as OS2 and Beta. I think I still have a copy of BeOS5 and it is amazing, fast, stable and a multimedia lovers wet dream. to bad it didn't pick up enuf to be a main stream OS.

Steve

I agree you have to want to tinker with it. But, here is why I like it. Lets say you wanted a powerfull webserver/fileserver or even a DNS server. I can download any version of linux and set these up - no charge. To do the same with windows? How much? And the thing I really hate about Microsoft is always charging more. When you buy Windows, yoor not ever done if you want to stay up to date. Linux I can simply enter a command and my whole system (including core) is updated. Like I said don't get me wrong, Windows will always be the dominate OS and will always have it's place in the market (and most of it) I still run 2000 on a machine. Power by the numbers. But for me, I found something I believe is better. and one day will be "the" alternative. Look at all the governments around the world changing over to linux. They are tired of haing to pay, and pay, and pay again for the same software.

Walter